You Shouldn't Lie In Front Of Me

Seeing that everyone was ready to go, Haru went ahead followed by the others as they passed the corridor and reached the platform they could see everyone gathered in front of them with the Cheol-du group in the lead as In-ho stood as if waiting for them to arrive.

"Welcome back Haru-ssi," In-ho said with his normal sly smile.

"This is quite the welcome indeed," Haru looked at the Cheol-du members who held bats with nails and crowbars ready to attack. Nam-woon smiled like it wasn't anything as Sang-ah and Hyun-sung felt how tense the situation was.

"Everyone in our group is on edge since our food gathering team got attacked by someone, I hope you understand," In-ho spoke loud enough for everyone to hear him, he had already spread the word along with a few more lies.

"I see it must've been a big loss to lose thirty people," Haru said while looking at the Cheol-du group. There were about 65 people in the Cheol-du group. 15 was the original number but it increased by 20 on the first day when they took control of the food, all of the thugs and gangsters joined them, and it increased again by 30 yesterday after In-ho pulled his trick.

But now there were only 35 people present, and Haru's words caused unrest in the surrounding people as even the original group members were sweating. They knew very well when and how they lost their 30 members like this while the group in front of them didnt even lost one.

"The monsters were strangely active last night and along with how dangerous it is to patrol the area while gathering food, people dying is normal," In-ho said trying to divert the attention.

"Monsters? We were also out last night with only two people at that and we didn't see a single one," Haru knew that In-ho was lying, there have been no monsters in the vicinity of the station, He had made sure that there were none with Hee-won.

"Maybe Haru-ssi didn't encounter them or maybe you all didn't go outside and neglected your duties," In-ho's smirk got a little wider as he spoke.

[Incarnation 'Cheon In-ho' has used the skill 'Incite lv. 3'.]

"Did they really?"

"Damn fuckers!!"

"My husband died because of you,"

"What were you doing?"

The normal survivors behind In-ho were getting angry at Haru's group.

"I see, So when faced with the responsibility of deaths in your group all you can do is make excuses and shift the blame, is that it," Haru's voice silenced the bystanders.

"I am just telling the truth as it is," In-ho said.

[Incarnation 'Cheon In-ho' is lying.]

"You thanked our group for patrolling the first and second exits in front of everyone, did you forget that? So when confronted with your failures putting the blame on someone else and using a skill to get people on your side, Where is the truth in that?" Haru looked at the prompt in front of him, In-ho on the other side didn't like that his plan failed.

'Why is my skills effect wearing off that quickly? The people should've been shouting by now accusing him more fiercely, what is happening?' In-ho's plan of putting the blame of the people he killed in the dark on Haru failed because his skill didn't work.

"I mean it isn't really a surprise, when someone attacked your group, you came towards mine with armed people trying to shift the blame, It seems you don't really like my group for some reason," Haru continued as the people on the platform got agitated.

"Didn't we all see it happen?"

"Why is In-ho lying?"

"No why did we agree with what he said?"

"Is In-ho really using a skill?"

"I am not lying about your group attacking ours, That man in the grey suit behind you, attacked our group and took one of our members away with him see she is at the back, Are you going to say that is a lie as well?" In-ho asked trying to draw everyone's attention away from the previous failure.

'How will you face this Haru-ssi?' Dok-ja wanted to see how Haru will go about this.

"That is the truth, but aren't you missing a few things?" But this wasn't what Dok-ja or for that matter no one on the platform expected from Haru.

'That's check,' Expect for Queresha that is.

"So you aren't going to deny it, that makes things easier. Also, I agree that there is one thing missing, and that is, your member brutally murdered 2 members of my group and injured one of them, if one of the team members wasn't hiding in fear all three of them would've been dead," In-ho said with a triumphant smile on his face, he was sure he has won as the people started to murmur about what he had just said. In-ho could see Haru's group panicking at the voices coming from the people.

There was one injured person standing right beside him, he was the one who had his pants down, and the other person was the one who killed Min-woo and then went out to check if there were any monsters. It was as Haru thought this guy brought back one of the guys from the team.

'Do-ah seems to recognize the two so they must be the people, But what about the other two?' Haru heard Dok-ja say that he only knocked them out and the two didn't have life-threatening injuries. So did these two kill their own group members?

'Well, it doesn't matter,' Haru thought since this was all over.

As the people continued to whisper among themselves Haru's soft yet strong voice rang out in everyone ears.

"In-ho, What did I tell you about not lying in front of carelessly?" In-ho didn't know what was happening but he felt his heart sink at that moment as he recalled the words.

FWOOSH*

A small ball of fire appeared on In-ho's chest and exploded covering him whole before he could even react.

"ARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," The people around In-ho stepped back in shock as his pain-filled screams echoed throughout the platform.

'And that is checkmate,' Queresha smiled slightly.

[The Stigma 'Fire of Truth lv. ???' is activated, The punishment will be carried out.]

[Incarnation 'Cheon In-ho' has lied three times, The severity of his punishment will be determined by the number of his crimes. Lives taken by the Cheon In-ho 40, Number of hours the punishment will last 4,000.]

Everyone on the platform could see the blue panel in the air.

"Y-You bastard, What have you done to In-ho-ssi?" Cheol-soo asked in a shaky voice as In-ho was still shouting, he wasn't dead but seemed to be burning continuously while feeling the pain.

"What is so hard to understand about this? He is being punished for not admitting to his crimes," Haru said with an unamused look.

"D-Don't fuck with us, Do you think you are a god or something, What right do you have to pass judgment on someone?"

"Yes stop this fake bullshit,"

"You just wanted to get rid of our group,"

"Yeah Yeah,"

One after another In-ho's group members started shouting trying to denounce Haru but they didn't move forward, not an inch. They were scared shitless and left trembling on the spot.

"I see, so you think I attacked him trying to cover up my mistakes?" Haru asked.

"Yes, what else?"

"Yeah,"

"You want to kill our group so that no one is here to oppose you,"

Everyone in In-ho's group agreed and shouted loudly.

"Then tell me, what do I stand to gain from doing this?" Haru asked as he was trying to make his position clear in everyone's mind. He could see that even though the other survivors were still scared of him, to be honest, he didn't care about them. All he wanted to do now was crush the In-ho group in every way possible.

"Y-You want to control all of the people here, so that you can do whatever you want with them," One of In-ho's cronies shouted loudly, they didn't expect Haru to actually let them talk.

"If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have declined the people who wanted to join my group," The other people also knew about what Haru said, nearly half of the survivors tried to join his group but Haru declined them. If he really wanted to control the people he'd easily have more than half of the people under him, so there was no need for him to go about it in such a way.

"But unlike me, your group is the one constantly trying to cause trouble trying to sabotage people even using skills to promote conflict, I wonder who really wants to do whatever they want?" Haru could see the people agreed with him more than the Cheol-du group because they have always known what type of the group was but they had only turned away from it because they didn't have the power to oppose them.

"Y-You… Stop faking this bullshit," The Cheol-du group wasn't even able to come up with a retort as they looked at the people behind them doubting them.

"Sigh you just don't understand, do you?" Haru stopped for a while before continuing.